Name: Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
Brand: Peter Shapiro

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9780571359820

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Paperback

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-14

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Lasgo

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Peter Shapiro

Genre US

Music

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Faber and Faber

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A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade.

Featuring artists such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, <i>Turn the Beat Around</i> illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.

Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco

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Discover Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro. A groundbreaking book that explores how disco changed popular culture forever. Available in various formats from Faber and Faber.